AUTOMATED HIGH RESOLUTION WIND FIELD RETRIEVALS OFF THE NORWEGIAN COAST BY COMBINED USE OF ENVISAT ASAR AND NUMERICAL MODELS

• Main Authors: K-f. Dagestad, J. Johannessen, G. Hauge, V. Kerbaol, F. Collard
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Asar; Barents Sea; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.433.3820

Taking advantage of recent easy near real time access to SAR-imagery from ESA, we have set up an automated system to download and process Envisat ASAR images to wind speed maps along the Norwegian coast and in the Barents Sea. The wind speed is calculated with the CMOD4-algorithm, taking wind direct...